Stern-Wharton Conference on Statistics in Business

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Sponsored by the

Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences

Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University

Cosponsor

Department of Statistics

The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Abstract

Uncertainty is ubiquitous in business, as it is in any context.
Probability, statistics, and stochastic processes are the tools by
which it is possible to understand uncertainty, and plan for and
control risk.

This conference brings together members of the statistics faculty
and doctoral students of the Stern and Wharton Schools of Business. The
objective is
to highlight both methodologies and applications of statistics to
problems in business, defined broadly.

Each speaker will present for 35 minutes followed by a 10
minute discussion period.

All interested researchers and practitioners are welcome. The registration fee for the conference is
$15, which includes continental breakfast, refreshments, a box
lunch, and an evening
reception. The registration fee is
waived for students, faculty, and staff of New York University and of
the
Wharton School, but all interested attendees must register in advance.
In order to register, please send name, title, affiliation and address
to
"gwashing@stern.nyu.edu". If you are not a Wharton or NYU student,
staff or faculty member please mail a check for $15 made out to New
York University to Gloria Washington, IOMS Department, 44 West 4th
Street, New York, NY 10012-0258, in order to reserve your spot.

Conference Coordinators:

Jeffrey S. Simonoff, Professor of Statistics, Stern School of
Business
Edward I. George, Universal Furniture Professor of Statistics, Wharton
School of Business

5:00pm Cocktail Reception Hosted by the Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences, The Stern School The Torch Club, 18 Waverly Place (between Greene Street and Mercer Street)

All sessions will be held in Room 1-70 on the first floor of the Kaufman Management Center (KMC), 44 West 4th Street, New York City - part of New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. The School is accessible via the R, N (to 8th Street), A, B, C, D, E, F, Q (to W. 4th Street), or #6 (to Astor Place) subway route. A public parking garage can be found one block from the Kaufman Management Center under the Washington Square Village apartment complex, beneath the block bounded by LaGuardia Place, West 3rd Street, Mercer Street, and Bleecker Street. The Kaufman Center is building 49 in the official NYU map, while the Torch Club is in block 32.

Discounted rooms at the Soho Grand Hotel are available to attendees of the conference, based on an NYU discount. Please let us know if you wish to make a reservation there, so that appropriate documentation for the NYU discount can be provided.